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  2. Black Death - Wikipedia

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    1346–1353. Deaths. 25,000,000 – 50,000,000 (estimated) The Black Death was a bubonic plague pandemic occurring in Europe from 1346 to 1353. One of the most fatal pandemics in human history, as many as 50 million people [2] perished, perhaps 50% of Europe's 14th century population. [3] Bubonic plague is caused by the bacterium Yersinia ...

  3. Wikipedia - Wikipedia

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    Wikipedia [note 3] is a free content online encyclopedia written and maintained by a community of volunteers, known as Wikipedians, through open collaboration and the use of the wiki -based editing system MediaWiki. Wikipedia is the largest and most-read reference work in history.

  4. WhatsApp - Wikipedia

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    WhatsApp (officially WhatsApp Messenger) is an instant messaging (IM) and voice-over-IP (VoIP) service owned by technology conglomerate Meta. [14] It allows users to send text, voice messages and video messages, [15] make voice and video calls, and share images, documents, user locations, and other content.

  5. Australia - Wikipedia

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    Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, [15] is a sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands. [b] Australia is the largest country by area in Oceania and the world's sixth-largest country.

  6. NDTV BQ Prime - Wikipedia

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    NDTV BQ Prime. NDTV Profit is an Indian business and financial news television channel by NDTV. In mid-2020, NDTV re-launched NDTV Profit with live market news, which caused the shutdown of NDTV Prime. Since the relaunch, NDTV Profit broadcasts some programs from NDTV Prime after the market hours, weekends, and public holidays.

  7. Vlada Roslyakova - Wikipedia

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    Elena Vladimirovna Roslyakova ( Russian: Елена Владимировна Рослякова; 8 July 1987) known professionally as Vlada Roslyakova, is a Russian-American model and actress. She has been called by Vogue Paris one of the top models of the 2000s decade and one of the most influential Russian models of all time, alongside ...

  8. Titanic - Wikipedia

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    RMS Titanicwas a British ocean linerthat sankon 15 April 1912 after striking an icebergon the ship's maiden voyage from Southampton, England to New York City, United States. Titanic,operated by the White Star Line, was carrying passengers and mail. Of the estimated 2,224 passengers and crewaboard, approximately 1,500 died, making the incident ...

  9. Linux - Wikipedia

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    A Linux-based system is a modular Unix-like operating system, deriving much of its basic design from principles established in Unix during the 1970s and 1980s. Such a system uses a monolithic kernel, the Linux kernel, which handles process control, networking, access to the peripherals, and file systems.